Notable Historical Events on April 15th
April 15th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
69 |
Battle at Bedriacum, North-Italy |
1205 |
Battle at Adrianople: Bulgaria beats Emp Boudouin of Constantinople |
1250 |
Pope Innoncent III refuses Jews of Cordova Spain to build a synagogue |
1450 |
French defeat English at Battle of Formigny in 100 Years' War |
1493 |
-20/4 Barcelona] Columbus meets with King Ferdinand & Isabella |
1528 |
Pánfilo the Narváez, Spanish conquistador arrives in Florida with 350 men to a hostile reception from native indians |
1534 |
Thomas Cromwell is appointed Chief Secretary to King Henry VIII |
1581 |
Cortes van Thomar accepts Philip II as king of Portugal |
1594 |
Fleming Pieter Stevens appointed royal painter of Rudolf II (Prague) |
1621 |
Hugo the Great arrives in France |
1632 |
Battle of Rain; Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat Count Tilly of the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War. |
1654 |
England & Netherlands sign peace treaty |
1689 |
French King Louis XIV declares war on Spain |
1697 |
Charles XII succeeds Charles XI as King of Sweden |
1715 |
Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina. |
1716 |
Russian & Prussian troops occupy Wismar |
1729 |
Johann Sebastian Bach's "St Matthew Passion" premieres in Leipzig |
1738 |
Bottle opener invented |
1738 |
Premiere in London of "Serse", an Italian opera by George Frederic Handel. |
1755 |
Samuel Johnson's "A Dictionary of the English Language" published in London. |
1776 |
Duchess of Kingston found guilty of bigamy |
1788 |
Britain, Netherlands & Prussia sign peace treaty |
1793 |
Bank of England hands out first £5 note |
1802 |
William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud". |
1817 |
1st American school for the deaf opens (Hartford Conn) |
1850 |
City of San Francisco incorporated |
1851 |
Earl G Andressy sentenced to death in Hungary |
1853 |
Protestant church questions king Willem III RC bishops |
1858 |
Battle of Azimghur, Mexicans defeat Spanish loyalists |
1861 |
Federal army (75,000 volunteers) mobilized by US President Lincoln (US Civil War) |
1864 |
General Steeles' Union troops occupies Camden, Arkansas |
1865 |
Otto Von Bismarck elevated to rank of Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen |
1870 |
Last day US silver coins allow to circulate in Canada |
1874 |
NY legislature passes compulsory education law |
1877 |
1st telephone installed: Boston-Somerville, Mass |
1878 |
Harley Procter introduces Ivory Soap |
1892 |
General Electric Company, forms & is incorporated in NY |
1895 |
Josephine Blatt (US) makes hip-and-harness lift of 3564 lb (record) |
1896 |
1st Olympic games close at Athens, Greece |
1900 |
Exposition Universelle/World Fair opens in Paris (till 12th Nov) |
1900 |
An early 50 mile race is won by an electric car in over 2 hrs |
1901 |
1st British motorized burial |
1901 |
Pope Leo XIII issues an allocution deploring hostile actions against the Roman Catholic Church throughout Europe |
1902 |
Pope Leo XIII encyclical "On Church in US" |
1902 |
Rioting and arson continue in Russia with peasants plundering estates to find food. |
1902 |
Russian minister of interior and head of secret police, Sipyengin, is assassinated by the 'Terror Brigade' of the Socialist Revolutionaries |
1906 |
The Armenian organization AGBU is established. |
1909 |
NY Giant Red Ames 2nd no-hitter, loses in 13 on a 7 hitter to Dodgers |
1910 |
Taft is 1st pres to throw out a 1st ball at a baseball game |
1911 |
Jack Lawrence Theater (Playhouse) opens at 137 W 48th St NYC |
1911 |
Walter Johnson pitches a record tying 4 strike outs in an inning |
1912 |
RMS Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM off Newfoundland as band plays on |
1915 |
Manuel de Falla's ballet "El Amor Brujo" premieres in Madrid |
1915 |
NY Giant Rube Marquard no-hits Bkln, 2-0 |
1918 |
Clemenceau publishes secret French/Austrian documents |
1920 |
New Canadian small cent coin is released |
1921 |
Black Friday in Britain: leaders of transport and rail unions announce a decision not to call for strike action in support of the miners; the epithet 'black' derives from a widespread feeling that the decision amounted to a breach of solidarity and a betrayal of the miners |
1922 |
Banting, MacLeod & Best discover insulin |
1922 |
The legendary Poodle Dog Restaurant closes in San Francisco |
1923 |
1st sound on film public performance shown at Rialto Theater (NYC) |
1923 |
Insulin becomes generally available for diabetics |
1924 |
Flemish-Walloon riots in Louvain, Belgium, 1 dead |
1924 |
WHO-AM in Des Moines Iowa begins radio transmissions |
1924 |
Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas. |
1925 |
NHL's NY Americans (formerly Hamilton Tigers) 1st game, lose 3-1 |
1927 |
Babe Ruth hits 1st of 60 HRs of season (off A's Howard Ehmke) |
1927 |
Switzerland & USSR agree to diplomatic relations |
1928 |
Alioto's on Fisherman's Wharf (SF) forms |
1931 |
1st walk across American backwards begins |
1937 |
Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings beat NY Rangers, 3 games to 2 |
1939 |
Albert Lebrun elected president of France |
1940 |
British troops land at Narvik, Norway |
1941 |
1st helicopter flight of 1 hr duration, Stratford, Ct |
1942 |
George VI awards George Cross to people of Malta |
1943 |
Metropolitan Life Insurances issues a $225 million check to Chase |
1945 |
British Army liberates Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen |
1945 |
FDR buried on grounds of Hyde Park home |
1945 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Communium interpretes dolorum |
1945 |
US troops occupy concentration camp Colditz |
1947 |
Jackie Robinson becomes 1st African-American to play in US major league baseball (Dodgers) |
1947 |
Operations begin at Radio Netherlands World radio |
1948 |
1st Jewish-Arab military battle, arabs defeated |
1948 |
Indian territory of Himachal Pradesh created |
1948 |
KCPX (now KTVX) TV channel 4 in Salt Lake City, UT (ABC) 1st broadcast |
1949 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Redemptoris nostri |
1951 |
Michael Gorsira is 1st person in charge of Curacao |
1952 |
1st B-52 prototype test flight |
1952 |
Franklin National Bank issues 1st bank credit card |
1952 |
Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings sweep Montreal Canadiens in 4 games |
1952 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1952 |
The maiden flight of the B-52 Stratofortress |
1953 |
Malans National Party wins South African elections |
1953 |
WHP TV channel 21 in Harrisburg, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
KARK TV channel 4 in Little Rock, AR (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
Orioles 1st game in Baltimore beat White Sox 3-1 |
1954 |
WHO TV channel 13 in Des Moines, IA (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
Yankees dedicate a plaque to Edward Barrow |
1955 |
Ray Kroc starts McDonald's chain of fast food restaurants (Illinois) |
1955 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1956 |
Marlene Bauer wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open |
1957 |
Congress gives Post Office $41M; restoring Saturday mail delivery |
1957 |
KTVI TV channel 2 in Saint Louis, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1957 |
Saturday mail delivery restored after Congress givs PO $41 million |
1958 |
10th Emmy Awards: Gunsmoke, Robert Young & Jane Wyatt win |
1958 |
1st baseball game in California, SF Giants beat LA Dodgers, 8-0 |
1959 |
Fidel Castro begins US goodwill tour |
1959 |
US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles resigns |
1960 |
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), organizes at Shaw U |
1961 |
"Music Man" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 1375 performances |
1962 |
US national debt above $300,000,000,000 |
1963 |
"Sophie" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 8 performances |
1964 |
Chesapeake Bay Bridge opens (world's longest) |
1964 |
Ian Smith becomes premier of Rhodesia |
1965 |
James Baldwin's "Amen Corner" premieres in NYC |
1965 |
NFL changes penalty flag from white to bright gold |
1966 |
KHET TV channel 11 in Honolulu, HI (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1966 |
Rolling Stones release "Aftermath" |
1967 |
"Wait A Minim!" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 457 perfs |
1968 |
Houston Astros beat NY Mets, 1-0, in 24 innings |
1969 |
North Korea shoots at US airplane above Japanese sea |
1970 |
"Cry for Us All" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 8 performances |
1970 |
Libyan leader Gadaffi launches "Green Revolution" |
1970 |
WMGZ TV channel 16 in Mayaguez, PR ([M]) begins broadcasting |
1970 |
WPSJ TV channel 14 in Ponce, PR ([P]) begins broadcasting |
1971 |
"70, Girls, 70" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 35 performances |
1971 |
43rd Academy Awards - "Patton", George C Scott & Glenda Jackson win |
1972 |
Barbra Striesand, James Taylor, Carole King & Quincy Jones perform at a benefit for George McGovern for President |
1972 |
A member of the Official Irish Republican Army is shot dead by British soldiers at Joy Street in the Markets area of Belfast close to his home |
1972 |
A member of the British Army is shot dead by the Official IRA in the Divis area of Belfast. |
1973 |
2nd Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright |
1973 |
Walt Disney Story opens |
1974 |
3rd Boston Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman of California in 2:47:11 |
1974 |
78th Boston Marathon won by Neil Cusack of Ireland in 2:13:39 |
1974 |
Military coup in Niger, president Diori Hamani deposed |
1975 |
1st appearance of San Diego Chicken |
1975 |
Gabon amends constitution |
1975 |
Penguins 3-Isles 1-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 2-0 lead |
1976 |
Yankee stadium reopens, Yanks beat Twins after trailing 4-0 |
1977 |
1st baseball game at Montreal's Olympic Stadium |
1978 |
43 die as 2 express trains collide head-on south of Bologna, Italy |
1978 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test |
1979 |
43rd Golf Masters Championship: Fuzzy Zoeller wins, shooting a 280 |
1979 |
A disastrous earthquake (of M 7.1) on Montenegro coast. |
1981 |
Janet Cooke says her Pulitzer award 8-year-old heroin addict story is a lie, Wash Post relinquishes Pulitzer Prize on fabricated story |
1982 |
Apollo Computer announces DN400, DN420, & landscape display |
1983 |
Rangers 0-Isles 5-Patrick Div Finals-Isles hold 2-0 lead |
1983 |
Tokyo Disneyland opens |
1984 |
"Human Comedy" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 13 performances |
1984 |
48th Golf Masters Championship: Ben Crenshaw wins, shooting a 277 |
1984 |
Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA J&B Scotch Pro-Am Golf Tournament |
1984 |
Extremist Sikhs plunder 40 stations in Punjab India |
1984 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1985 |
14th Boston Women's Marathon won by Lisa Larsen Weidenbach in 2:34:06 |
1985 |
89th Boston Marathon won by Geoff Smith of Great Britain in 2:14:05 |
1985 |
Challenger moves to launch pad for 51-B missing |
1986 |
US air raids Libya, responding to La Belle disco, Berlin bombing |
1986 |
Viv Richards century off 56 balls v England in Antigua Test Cricket |
1986 |
The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon against Libya. |
1987 |
"Barbara Cook: A Concert..." opens at Ambassador NYC for 13 perfs |
1987 |
Alfred Uhry's "Driving Miss Daisy" premieres in NYC |
1988 |
Meteorite explode above Indonesia |
1988 |
Wendy Wasserstein's "Heidi Chronicles" premieres in NYC |
1989 |
96 crushed to death at Hillsborough Football Stadium, Sheffield England |
1989 |
Students in Beijing pro-democracy protests |
1989 |
Sue Marchiano wins 3rd World Cup female marathon (2:30:48) |
1989 |
Then largest lottery in North America ($69M) drawn in Illinois |
1990 |
"In Living Color" premieres on FOX-TV |
1990 |
Greenidge & Haynes make 298 opening stand (v Eng), their best |
1991 |
"Secret Garden" opens at St James Theater NYC for 706 performances |
1991 |
20th Boston Women's Marathon won by Wanda Panfil of Poland in 2:24:18 |
1991 |
95th Boston Marathon won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya in 2:11:06 |
1991 |
East-Europe Bank forms in London |
1991 |
Europe foreign ministers lift most remaining sanctions against S Afr |
1991 |
Former child actor Adam Rich charged with burglary |
1991 |
Magic Johnson sets NBA record for career assistswith 9,898 |
1991 |
Maximum NY State unemployment benefits raised to $280 per week |
1991 |
Sacramento Kings set NBA record, losing 35th consecutive game on road |
1991 |
Ton Sijbrands improves world record blind checker games (15 wins) |
1992 |
Billionaire Leona Helmsly is sent to jail for tax evasion |
1992 |
Jay Leno's final appearance as permanent guest host of Tonight |
1992 |
Lincoln Hospital in Bronx loses its accreditation |
1992 |
NY Islander, Al Arbour, coaches most NHL games (1,438) |
1992 |
William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy & DeForest Kelley inducted into National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame |
1992 |
The National Assembly of Vietnam adopts the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. |
1994 |
Indians loses 1st game at Jacobs Field, KC wins 2-1 |
1994 |
WMMS-FM's Jeff & Flash, & entire station staff, are fired |
1996 |
"Apple Doesn't Fall" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 1 performance |
1996 |
100th Boston Marathon won by Moses Tanui of Kenya in 2:09:15.9 |
1996 |
25th Boston Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig of Germany in 2:27:12.6 |
1997 |
America On Line, begins service in Japan |
1997 |
Baseball honors Jackie Robinson by retiring #42 for all teams |
1997 |
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Charlotte NC on WXRC 95.7 FM |
1997 |
Fire sweeps through a campsite of Muslims making the Hajj pilgrimage; the official death toll is 343. |
2002 |
An Air China Boeing 767-200, flight CA129 crashes into a hillside during heavy rain and fog near Busan, South Korea, killing 128. |
2009 |
Even though official government sources state that Argentina's GDP will actually grow this year, private consulting firms state that Argentine economy has actually been in recession since October 2008 |
2010 |
Volcanic ash from the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland leads to the closure of airspace over most of Europe. |
2012 |
400 Islamist Militants escape from a Pakistan prison after an insurgent attack |
2012 |
China loosens monetary policy and allows the Yuan to fluctuate up to 1% against the US dollar |
2012 |
US Secret Service inappropriate conduct scandal begins with at least 11 people implicated |
2013 |
3 people are killed and 183 are injured after two explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon |
2013 |
33 people are killed and 163 are injured in a wave of bombings across Iraq |
2013 |
Nicolás Maduro is narrowly elected President of Venezuela |
2016 |
China Blasts New US-Philippine Military Cooperation |
2016 |
Colombia Reports First Cases of Microcephaly Linked to Zika Virus |
2016 |
Strong quake in Japan kills at least nine, nuclear plants safe |
2016 |
China says enhanced US-Philippine military ties invoke 'Cold War mentality' |
2016 |
NY Post endorses Donald Trump for president |
2017 |
Georgia Officers are Fired After Kicking Man at Traffic Stop |
2017 |
North Korea rolls out heavy artillery in giant military parade |
2017 |
Court blocks Arkansas from using lethal injection drug |
2018 |
UN rejects Russian attempt to condemn US aggression in Syria |
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